Eulogio Cantillo

Eulogio Cantillo (13 September 1911-9 September 1978) was a general in the Cuban Army during the Cuban Revolution. He commanded the government forces at Santa Clara in 1958, and he was later forced into exile in Miami, where he died.

Biography
Eulogio Cantillo was born in Cuba in 1911, and he commanded the Army Aviation Corps before serving as Head of the Joint Chiefs. During the Cuban Revolution, he led a summer 1958 offensive, "Operation Verano", which had the goal of reversing the defeats of 1957. The rebels withdrew into the Sierra Maestra, where they managed to fight back against the government forces until Cantillo agreed to a truce. He was left as head of the Cuban Army after Fulgencio Batista fled to the Dominican Republic in January 1959, and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison after the communist seizure of power. He was released before he could complete the sentence, and he went into exile in Miami, Florida, where he died in 1978.